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You have to start somewhere, and in the restaurant industry, it's right at the bottom. But if you analyze the dirty dishes carefully, you'll learn EXACTLY what people like and don't like. Wash... and learn.

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06:00 - 12:00

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§90/day

2) Drive Thru Order Taker

Out of the frying pan and into the fire! You don't have to clean anymore, but dealing with hungry commuters and teen pranks will either make you or break you. You'd better study up on the industry if you want to get promoted.

OK, you got your foot in the door, now show them what you're made of. But remember, if you want to be head chef, you'll need to pepper them with charm, as well as with spices. Can you cut the mustard?

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09:00 - 15:00

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§180/day

5) Head Chef

And you thought being head chef was about cooking! You'll need to "keep a lid on" your employees as well as your pots. Plus, deal with pushy customers when their tempers "boil over." Learn to mix people as well as you mix the spices.

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09:00 - 15:00

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§220/day

6) Restaurant Critic

This was a smart move: you can still belittle people, eat like royalty AND get paid for it! The only drawbacks are that you need a shred of creativity and have to constantly network for new gigs. At least you can sleep in late.

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15:00 - 23:00

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§335/day

7) Cookbook Author

You translated your passion as a critic into a career as an author! Everyone wants to make the recipes you dream up, no matter how obscure the ingredients or laborious the cooking. Just keep smiling and signing copies...this could lead to something BIG.

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15:00 - 23:00

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§590/day

8) Restaurateur

With your celebrity and connections as a famous author, opening your own chain of pretentious bistros was almost inevitable. Now you're competing on a national scale. Keep cooking up the next big gastrointestinal thing, and use your old critic friends to hype up your business.

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09:00 - 14:00

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§690/day

9) Celebrity Chef

The hype paid off! Restaurants only reach a few wealthy Sims, but television reaches MILLIONS! From the lost subtleties of "perfect toast," to the massive complexity of "wedding banquets in 30 minutes," your culinary cunning will have couch potatoes drooling from Rio to Reykjavik.

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15:00 - 23:00

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§760/day

10) Candy Bar Magnate

Your new candy bar lets the world know you have ARRIVED. From supermarket checkout lines, to vending machines, to your Chocolate Land theme park, the profits pour in as the corn syrup pours out! Life is SWEEEEEET!

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16:00 - 23:00

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§930/day

A Candy Bar Magnate will eventually change careers and become a Top Secret Researcher in the Science career track.

The speaker system breaks, and you are able to fix it without missing a single order. You gain 1 mechanical point and get a $2000 good service award.

Positive: +§2000, +1

3) Fast Food Shift Manager

No chance cards for this level

4) Sous Chef

No chance cards for this level

5) Head Chef

The public can't seem to get enough of your special BBQ sauce. You sell the recipe to a bottling plant for $5000.

Positive: +§5000

6) Restaurant Critic

No chance cards for this level

7) Cook Book Author

No chance cards for this level

8) Restaurateur

The seafood was not as fresh as you thought. The health department fines you $7000 and you lose 1 charisma point.

Negative: -§7000, -1

9) Celebrity Chef

No chance cards for this level

10) Candy Bar Magnete

While working on your latest candy bar creation, you accidentally discover a new form of hot chocolate that never gets cold. The government is extremely interested in your find, and offers you a position as a Top Secret Researcher. You are now in the Science career track.

You have to start somewhere, and in the restaurant industry, it's right at the bottom. But if you analyze the dirty dishes carefully, you'll learn EXACTLY what people like and don't like. Wash... and learn.

S M T W T F S

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14:00 - 22:00

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§126/day

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No bonus

2) Drive Through Clerk

Out of the frying pan and into the fire! You don't have to clean anymore, but dealing with hungry commuters and teen pranks will either make you or break you. Don't forget to smile!

S M T W T F S

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17:00 - 21:00

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§168/day

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Bonus: §336

3) Fast Food Shift Manager

Joy of joys...instead of fixing food you now have to fix problems: tangled register tape, clogged soda drink dispensers, and squabbling underpaid employees. Be creative about your problem solving or you'll be stuck picking taco droppings out of your hair for a long, long time.

S M T W T F S

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17:00 - 22:00

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§182/day

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Bonus: §364

4) Host / Hostess

If you never see another burger again, it'll be too soon. Now you're out of the kitchen, seating people and managing tables in a restaurant where people expect REAL food for the prices they're paying. Keep your eyes open and your smile painted on as you start learning about the industry-it's a dog-eat-food world out there, and you'll want to be well prepared.

S M T W T F S

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10:00 - 16:00

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§242/day

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Bonus: §484

5) Waiter / Waitress

If you thought hosting was bad, just try waiting tables. THIS is a promotion? You'd better believe it! Be prepared to think on your feet to outwit and impress your often-crafty customers in pursuit of the Almighty Tip—all while wearing a snazzy uniform and those ubiquitous Pieces of Flair.

S M T W T F S

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14:00 - 19:00

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§308/day

2

Bonus: §616

6) Prep Cook

You've memorized everything on the menu and managed to work your way into a position as a Prep Cook. It's not glamorous, but it's real kitchen work - and you look stylin' in that big white hat! Get comfortable with the slicing, dicing and julienne fries - you're not going to get any farther in this industry if you don't know your basic cooking inside and out.

S M T W T F S

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09:00 - 15:00

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§469/day

2

Bonus: §938

7) Sous Chef

It's ironic that the more accomplished you become, the less you actually touch the food. As Sous Chef you're spending most of your time as a manager and cheerleader for your kitchen staff. If you want to keep moving up, you'll have to prove you've got the eccentric creativity needed to create novel dishes. Bon appetit!

S M T W T F S

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14:00 - 21:00

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§812/day

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Bonus: §1,624

8) Executive Chef

Finally recognized for your creative gifts, you've been given control of your restaurant's menu in order to create completely new and exciting dishes. It's a dream come true-but you're already dreaming of more. Keep challenging yourself as you work towards a new prize: a franchise of your own!

S M T W T F S

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09:00 - 15:00

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§1,208/day

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Bonus: §2,416

9) Restauranteur

Everyone's clamoring for a piece of the pie - YOUR pie, that is. Now that you've developed a distinctive culinary style, it's time to milk it for everything it's worth as a national brand. Keep everyone on their toes with your creative genius and you just might become a household name!

S M T W T F S

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10:00 - 14:00

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§1,330/day

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Bonus: §2,660

10) Celebrity Chef

You've finally arrived, and your face is selling more cookbooks than your own food does! It's been a long road, but you've now got a TV show seen by millions, a successful restaurant chain, and a name that commands respect. Bask in your victory as you flaunt your celebrity in televised competitions and enjoy your new life as a media mogul!

You have to start somewhere, and in the restaurant industry, it's right at the bottom. But if you analyze the dirty dishes carefully, you'll learn EXACTLY what people like and don't like. Wash... and learn.

S M T W T F S

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15:00 - 18:00

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§63/day

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No bonus

2) Drive Through Clerk

Out of the frying pan and into the fire! You don't have to clean anymore, but dealing with hungry commuters and teen pranks will either make you or break you. Don't forget to smile!

S M T W T F S

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17:00 - 21:00

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§84/day

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Bonus: §168

3) Fast Food Shift Manager

Joy of joys...instead of fixing food you now have to fix problems: tangled register tape, clogged soda drink dispensers, and squabbling underpaid employees. Be creative about your problem solving or you'll be stuck picking taco droppings out of your hair for a long, long time.

It's another dreary night, and <Sim> is up to his/her elbows in slimy dishwater with an embarrassing case of dishpan hands. He/She has one last bit of cleanup to do for the night when the head chef, Lefromage, runs frantically into the kitchen, arms flailing like a dying lobster. "Mon Dieu! A critic has come, and ze staff has gone home for ze night! Can you help cook?" Can <Sim> trust himself/herself not to set the kitchen on fire, or should he/she stick to the dishpan hands?

Keep Cleaning

Success: +§150

85% chance

Failure: Get Fired

14% chance

Fire up the Burners!

Success: +2

14% chance

Failure: -§126

(A day's pay)

85% chance

2) Drive Trough Clerk

It's late, and <Sim> is working the drive-through all by his/her lonesome - lots of responsibility for little pay. Suddenly, the otherwise quiet night is ruined when local rich kid Mimi Landgrabb and some of her hoodlum friends pull up (<Sim> recognizes them by the indecent language coming through the tiny speaker.) From what he's/she's heard from other employees, <Sim> is pretty sure they're going to drive off without paying. Should he/she fill out the order, or should he/she treat them to a bit of their own medicine?

Fries with that?

Success: +§150

15% chance

Failure: -§100

84% chance

Teach them a Lesson!

Success: +1

84% chance

Failure: Get Fired

15% chance

3) Fastfood Shiftmanager

The movie theater down the street just let out and <Sim>'s restaurant is PACKED. (One might think they'd be full after those absurdly sized movie drinks, but no such luck.) He's/She's barking orders left and right when suddenly the unthinkable happens: the Uberburger 3000 breaks down in an entirely ungraceful puff of smoke. Now the restaurant smells like charcoal and there isn't a burger in sight. Should he try to keep going without the Uberburger, or take the repair into his own hands?

Who Needs Burgers?

Success: Promoted to Host(ess)

85% chance

Failure: -§500

14% chance

Roll Up Those Sleeves!

Success: +§364 +1

14% chance

Failure: Demoted to Drive Through Clerk

-1

85% chance

4) Host(ess)

It's every restaurant's worst nightmare: the party of 25 teenagers with no reservations. They showed up on the doorstep with no warning, and they're getting rambunctious while they're waiting for a table. At this point, they're starting to annoy the other guests. <Sim> could tell them that there's no room and hope they don't make a scene, or he/she could make room for them by asking that last elderly group he's/she's waiting on to leave. (They haven't ordered anything in 40 minutes!) Who gets the boot?

The Grandparents

Success: +§400

15% chance

Failure: Demoted to Fastfood Shiftmanager

84% chance

Those Darn Kids

Success: Promoted to Waiter/Waitress

84% chance

Failure: -2

15% chance

5) Waiter/Waitress

That trail of fainting girls outside can only mean one thing - swoonworthy teen heartthrob Simon Simmy has arrived at <Sim>'s restaurant! <Sim> has been granted the dubious honor of serving Simmy, and the picky star is sure keeping his/her hands full. He's currently demanding an expensive brand of water - "Vapour" - that's only sold at one place in all of SimCity. Since the cooks are busy, it's up to <Sim> to retrieve it. Should he/she make the run and give up his/her tips at the other tables he's/she's working, or should he/she secretly substitute tap water for Simon's fancy water?

Play Fetch

Success: Promoted to Prep Cook

85% chance

Failure: -§300

14% chance

Try Tap

Success: +§500

14% chance

Failure: Get Fired

85% chance

6) Prep Cook

A local society dame has contracted with <Sim>'s restaurant to cater her daughter's wedding to a local wealthy businessman. This overly extravagant affair promptly causes headaches for the entire staff: the demands range from the silly (500 miniature swans made entirely of coconut paste) to the impossible ("Can you get powder blue lettuce greens for the salads?"). The sous chef is so busy taking care of the demands that he leaves the decision about the soup ("surprise us!") entirely up to <Sim>. Should he/she make Italian wedding soup or the less traditional Louisiana Gumbo?

Italian Wedding

Success: +§2,000 +1

85% chance

Failure: -§1,000

14% chance

Louisiana Gumbo

Success: Promoted to Sous Chef

14% chance

Failure: Get Fired -1

85% chance

7) Sous Chef

As <Sim> grows more skilled in his/her work, he/she also begins to host dinner parties that gain him/her respect among his/her friends. One such friend, who dabbles in publishing, suggest that <Sim> publish a cookbook to get his/her name out there, going so far to offer a nice contract. Now all that <Sim> has to decide is what type of recipes to feature. He/She could concentrate on Asian dishes, a particular passion of his/hers, or he/she could try and shoot for the growing low-carb low-sodium low-substance cookbook market. Which book should he/she write?

Eastern Eats

Success: +§10,000

85% chance

Failure: Demoted to Prep Cook -§5,000

14% chance

No-Cal Cooking

Success: +§3,000 +2

14% chance

Failure: -1

85% chance

8) Executive Chef

<Sim> has become quite the talk of the town lately - his/her latest menu has been praised as "a gift from the heavens" and "a miraculous delight." It's not long before entrepreneurial spirits begin to approach him/her with seeming lucrative endorsement deals. Two of them stand out from the rest - one investor offers to put his/her name on a new brand of indestructible sporks, while another proposes a branded line of combination food processor/fax machines for the busy household. Which absurd kitchen implement will <Sim> endorse?

Sporks of Steel

Success: +§20,000

50% chance

Failure: Get Fired

49% chance

Blend 'n' Send

Success: +§50,000

49% chance

Failure: -§20,000 -2

50% chance

9) Restauranteur

<Sim>'s line of restaurants is doing fairly well - so well that they've saturated most of the major metropolitan areas. It's time to branch out in a creative direction if business is to be kept at a booming pace. After speaking with his/her financial advisers, <Sim> has narrowed his/her actions down to two potential expansions - establishing a partnership with several major theme park chains, or expanding into airports across the country. Where should he/she put the dough?

Theme Park

Success: Promoted to Celebrity Chef

15% chance

Failure: -§30,000

84% chance

Airports

Success: +§55,000 +1

84% chance

Failure: Demoted to Executive Chef -1

15% chance

10) Celebrity Chef

What do wealthy celebrity chefs do to ensure their continued place at the top? Why, they compete in overly complicated televised battle shows, of course! <Sim> is honored by an invitation from the #1 reality-cooking-competition show, "Steel Cuisine." He's/She's been pitted against one of the most renowned chefs in the industry, Pierre Lefromage. (That name sounds strangely familiar ...) The week before the historic competition, <Sim> receives a mysterious phone call - someone will tell him/her the secret ingredient to be used for the sum of §50,000. Is <Sim>'s victory worth the shame and risk of cheating?

The host uniform at Level 4 is seemingly based off the uniform that Jennifer Aniston's character, Joanna, wears in the film Office Space, the purple uniform and the numerous badges is heavily reminiscent of the uniforms that the employees have to wear in the film.[1]

The Culinary career level 9 is wrongly named "Restauranteur". It's supposed to be "Restaurateur".

Performance options: Business as Usual, Work Hard, Take It Easy, Hang with Co-workers, Suck Up To Boss, Sleep On Prep Table, Practice Cooking

Note: This is the only career track that has more than one working location. However, sims can only choose one place or the other to work at. Despite the differences in location, job rankings & pay remain the same.

The life of a Kitchen Scullion is fraught with orders from snooty chefs in the midst of flame-filled kitchens. A little cooking knowledge, not to mention a warm attitude in the presence of cold patrons, will do wonders for you as an aspiring chef.

The modern spice trade is here and you are at the helm. A dash of paprika, organic sea salts, and just the right amount of cayenne can change any dish for the better… or worse! It’s all about the right spice at the right time in the life of a Spice Runner.

Slicing and dicing the freshest produce with razor sharp cutlery is dire duty, but someone has to do it. It’s time for you to warm up to the boss, because from here on out it’ll take just a pinch of schmooze to perfect the dish that is your career.

Someone clearly respects your taste, which means many arduous mouthfuls to stomach the role of the Ingredient Taster. Bring the charm along with the apron, because how co-workers evaluate you will ultimately determine your role in the restaurant.

Meals are finally being put squarely in your hopefully capable hands. As a Line Cook, you’re tasked with a dish from start to finish, and there’s nobody to blame for bad peas... but you! The heat of the kitchen has never been hotter and it’s a recipe for disaster if you aren’t careful.

After countless recipes filled with succulent, savory tastes, it’s time to work from the sweeter side of the kitchen. Delicate, flaky desserts and scrumptiously sugared breakfast tarts are the order of the day for Pastry Chefs. Keep rolling the dough to start rolling in the dough!

As a Sous Chef, you must step back from the intriguing flavors and tackle the sour issues of kitchen management. The orders now come from up top and customers waiting for their meal, so satisfy all, or go home hungry and empty handed.

Now that you’re an Executive Chef, you must constantly improve the menu, meet the special requests of special guests, and determine the course of the restaurant. Some employees might disintegrate like a poorly constructed pie crust under the pressure, but that’s just how the cookie crumbles.

Every restaurant that seeks to succeed must have a vision and food that deliciously inspires it patrons. The Chef de Cuisine must cultivate these culinary tendencies and let no Sim or untoward flavor stand in their way!

Without peer, (Sim) is in charge. As a celebrity Five-Star Chef, you are the face of the restaurant. People read your books, watch you on TV, and dream of sampling your culinary masterpieces. There isn’t a single spice, flavor, or combination of sweet and sour that you haven’t contemplated and perfected. You are the master of the kitchen!

The Chef is experimenting with recipes involving fish. The only problem is that he doesn't have any fish. Use this cheese as bait to catch an Alley Catfish, then turn it in to the restaurant. But hurry! The Chef promises to pay top Simoleon!

Working Alongside Friends

Reward: Co-worker relationship and job performance boosts

Your boss thinks it'd benefit your personal growth and job performance if you befriended [Sim], but quickly! Meet [Sim] for a friendly chat. Who knows where the relationship will lead?

Rock and Sushi Roll

The restaurant wants to take advantage of the sushi craze that is sweeping the town. Catch two fish, then turn them in at the restaurant. The Chef guarantees you some extra money for your efforts as well as a job performance increase.